LOVE the unicorn, but hate the cupcakes. The roadkill toppers aren't even handmade - they are jelly candies from Oriental Trading Company!!! http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/search/processRequest.do?Ntt=road+kill&x=0&y=0&requestURI=searchMain&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&N=0

Hands-down, the unicorn cake is a classic. I love the oozy rainbow blood (Except I concur with Doresoom, unicorn blood is silver. Hello?).ps There is a chain of resturants called The Roadkill Cafe. You haven't lived until you've had their Snippet of Whippet.

I'm just going to say, for as bad as many of the other wrecks you post are, these really aren't bad. That is considering the customer for whatever reason requested a roadkill cake, but that's another story entirely. Now, the sushi beaver is probably the worst of the bunch, but once again, the cakes deliver the required message, whatever that may be.

I know I'm completely sick, but I LOVE that unicorn cake. All I could think of with the other roadkill cakes, though, was "Must have made a huge bump as they drove over--didn't even flatten the critters!" Really, wouldn't they be flat? Instead they just looked like animals with random black stripes. I only figured out the roadkill angle because of the context of this post.

Boy, that armadillo must've caused one heck of a bump! And where's the beaver's tail??? Did it get squished off and used to decorate a second cake?And the unicorn... well, ick. Just ick. The adjectives "appetizing" and "tasty" -- or even "tasteful" -- just don't apply here.

The unicorn cake is hilarious! A while back I had to read the story of Noah's Ark to a class of 6 year olds, supposedly part of their religious education. It ended up a heated discussion on why we don't see unicorns anymore - this cake would have settled the argument once and for all!

All I can think of when I see that Unicorn cake is what happened to 'thinkgeek' and their April Fools Unicorn meat and the American Pork Board! http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2010/06/officially-our-bestever-cease.html

I wonder if that Armadillo cake is blood-red inside. Remember the scene from Steel Magnolias? Remember the woman who played that cougar who was always hitting on Jack on Three's Company? She plays the part of a wedding guest who bakes the groom's cake and it's blood-red inside. I've always wanted to try a slice. They made it look so crumbly and sweet.

I wonder what kind of cake was used to make the unicorn. Most people use red velvet (especially for armadillos - thanks Steel Magnolias) but with the unicorn bleeding a rainbow, I'm thinking it's white "funfetti" cake like what Pillsbury has.

Wouldn't it be cool to have a roadkill cake that was actually run over? I vote for the CCC (patooie!).

This post makes me think of two songs:

"You take green alligators and long-necked geese, some humpy-backed camels and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants as sure as you're born, but don't you forget my unicorn." (Thankfully, all but the first and last are missing here.)

"And when the wombat comes, he will find me gone / he'll look for a place to sit."

Oh, cripe, john (the hubby of Jen). You went and changed the bear to a wombat. Now we will get comments "I think the wombat is a bear cub." Did the whole Spaceship Earth/EPCOT thing not teach you to leave well enough alone.

ROTFLMAO! I am supposed to be listening to an official company-wide phone message. Well, it's going in one ear and out the other. I'm looking at Cake Wrecks and all of a sudden I burst out laughing and my colleages are now wodering what is so funny because they are listening to the same phone message....oops....

Just for everyone's benefit: Here in the Deep South (yes, Armadillos ARE "possum on the half shell") we actually make fun of ourselves, our redneck behaviors, and our roadkill. I tell you, every one of these beats the hell out of Dried Possum in a Can and I bet most of them were made in the South.

Frankly, I think the unicorn one ROCKS! And I kinda like the steam roller cake, too. (My husband works with a guy who makes jerky out of roadkill, I kid you not. He's a bit stereotypical hippie, actually.)

The others were definitely what I'd call "wrecks" as they seemed to be unintentional. But the intentional ones? Can they really be called "wrecks"? I mean, the definition uses "unintentional," after all.

Not to sound ill or anything, but... THOSE ARE HYSTERICAL!!! I especially love the caption on the first one: "He didn't stand a chance!". The only way any of them could have been funnier is if the beaver was a care-bear instead.

Now, about that beaver... Frankly, what was clearly supposed to be a tire tread looks more like the belt on one of those old-fashioned "flab shaker" machines. (Which could also be funny, in the proper context, but doesn't work here).

WV: rolubi - Next time you see some prime roadkill, don't just rolubi, pick it the hell up!

This is so awesome! Ahem. Let me explain. I had just started making cakes with all the shapes and fondant and whatnot, and I told my friend I would love to make her a birthday cake. Her first suggestion was a unicorn, and being unexperienced in the realm of standing quadruped cake engineering, I was worried I would only be able to make a unicorn lying down, which didn't sound too great. The next suggestion was roadkill (we were probably about fourteen or fifteen... give us a break?) Which would have been alright, but considering I wanted to make a 3D cakes, traditional roadkill tends to be quite flat, so I wasn't too thrilled about that idea either. Naturally we combined the two ideas. They kept and still have the head, which is made of fondant. The unicorn was covered in edible glitter, and I made that cake before I figured out you were supposed to use a fancy covered cake board underneath it, hence the white board. I'm still a little embarrassed about those sketchy tire marks and the gimpy legs, but I've gotten better, I swear! Here are a few cakes I've made in the last couple of weeks: http://i34.tinypic.com/aua0w5.jpghttp://i38.tinypic.com/n65b4l.jpgI've been a huge fan of Cake Wrecks for a while, and this is possibly one of the most exciting things that's happened to me. Yay!

Must be a southern thing but I know 2 separate people who actually had armadillo red velvet groom's cakes at their weddings. The local bake shop even has instructions on how to make your own version of this ?traditional? wedding wreck:http://www.allinonebakeshop.com/documents/armadillocakeinstructionsheet.pdf

My sons' Cub Scout Pack has an annual cake decorating contest, and one of the categories is, in fact, "roadkill". It is the most popular category, and it is amazing what some of those twisted little minds have come up with over the years. :-0

But it never occurred to me that people would order roadkill cakes from professional bakeries. That is seriously twisted!

Sweet Jesus, why would anyone go to all that trouble to make an ugly armadillo (but I repeat myself!) cake?? It took me awhile to figure out what the black "straps" were on Mr. Armadillo and the beaver/wombat - duhh!!

Aww that poor unicorn didn't deserve that horrid death lol. Actually none of those did but that unicorn one was pretty gross. I mean did it land in vomit? Ew. I hope this cake wasn't for a child or that wreckerator is responsible for the nightmares to come.. scary cake.

I'm not sure what I find more amusing; the idea that we have roadkill cakes or wondering, in relivence, how someone managed to run these things down, especially the unicorn. At the end of the day, I think I'll just silence my hunger with something a bit more appealing and skip dessert.

number 3 is the dreaded CCC! and it's bloody hideous! I'd actually pay the $12.99 to buy it, set in front of the "bakery" and REALLY roadkill it!But the unicorn... that is almost sacrilegious! I blame Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, for destroying propriety, but THEY would make GREAT roadkill cakes!

The cupcakes remind me of Trolli's roadkill gummie candy. No, wait... those are gummies on the cupcakes. PETA managed to stop the sale of Trolli ones and someone started making much more detailed ones in retaliation.

It's not that people have anything against armadillos, it's just that they are notorious for getting run over. In the South, you see them dead on the road/roadside more than any other animal.

You remember the old cartoon cliche that when a toon died or faked a death, it'd fall on its back and stick all four of its feet (or feet and arms) straight up in the air? Well, armadillos are the only real animal I know of that you'll find dead on its back with all four feet stuck straight up in the air.

THANK YOU sooo much for sharing my "beaver" cake!... Hehe. I didn't think I could be more excited till I saw quite a few people recognize that it's a WOMBAT! :D No one I knew (except the birthday girl) could figure out what it was either... :/ Haha.

So the story is my friend likes wombats & sushi... So I just combined them. ;) And honestly, she doesn't like cake, so he's made of brownies & the sushi is rice cereal treats... (hope that doesn't get me deleted, hehe)

To be fair, at least this set seems to have succeeded to some degree in communicating the actual intent of the piece. After all, it's not an attempt at tiramisu that happens to LOOK like a piece of beaver sushi. It IS a cake shaped like beaver sushi. We hope.

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